Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani (Arabic: محمد رشيد قباني, born September 15, 1942) is the former Grand Mufti of Lebanon and the most prominent Sunni Muslim cleric in the country.
An alleged assassination attempt against Qabbani was foiled by Lebanese internal security forces on September 21, 2009, during Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Beirut.
[1] In his 2014 Eid al-Fitr sermon, Qabbani called for jihad to "[liberate] Palestine's sacred land from Jewish foreign occupation."
In an interview broadcast on Al-Manar TV in September 2012, Qabbani condemned the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims as "intensely painful and disgusting" and stressed that broadcasting the movie was a step towards "instigating Christian-Islamic tension" during the Pope's visit to Lebanon.
On January 28, 2013, Qabbani made a fatwa declaring any Muslim politician who supports the introduction of civil marriage, as an apostate.